UPDATED, 2:30 p.m. ET: YouTube on Wednesday eliminated a warning that the “Joker 2” trailer could embrace “suicide or self-harm subjects.” A rep for the video platform mentioned its techniques had “incorrectly” utilized the warning label.
“We decided that our techniques utilized the warning interstitial incorrectly,” a YouTube spokesperson informed Selection. “The trailer stays accessible on YouTube with no warning.”
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YouTube is advising viewer discretion with the newly dropped trailer for Warner Bros.’ “Joker: Folie à Deux” — warning customers that it “could comprise suicide or self-harm subjects.”
As of Wednesday morning, a brand new message appeared earlier than the trailer is playable on YouTube: “The next content material could comprise suicide or self-harm subjects. Viewer discretion is suggested.” Earlier than they’ll watch the “Joker 2” trailer, customers should click on on a button that claims, “I perceive and want to proceed.” The warning label didn’t initially seem on the trailer when it was launched Tuesday night.
The scene which will have triggered the content material warning: Harley Quinn (performed by Woman Gaga) makes a finger-gun gesture then holds it to her temple earlier than pulling the “set off.”
“I’m no one. I haven’t carried out something with my life like you might have,” Harley Quinn tells Joker as she mimes capturing herself within the head.
Beneath YouTube’s Neighborhood Pointers coverage protecting suicide and self-harm content material, the video platform says, it could add “a warning in your video earlier than it begins taking part in, indicating that it comprises content material referring to suicide and self-harm” along with a panel below the video with “supportive sources akin to cellphone numbers of suicide prevention organizations.”
The two minute and 24 second teaser trailer exhibits Joaquin Phoenix reprising his Oscar-winning position as Arthur Fleck (who later turns into the Joker) first assembly Woman Gaga’s Harley Quinn after they’re each inmates at Gotham’s infamous Arkham Asylum. The pair fall head over heels in love earlier than hatching a plan to interrupt out of the joint.
“Joker: Folie à Deux” director Todd Phillips debuted the movie’s footage Tuesday at CinemaCon, the annual conference for movie show house owners. Warner Bros. will launch “Joker 2” in theaters on Oct. 4, 2024, precisely 5 years after the unique “Joker.”
Selection final month reported that “Joker 2” is a form of jukebox musical, with no less than 15 reinterpretations of well-known songs. (The trailer includes a model of “What the World Wants Now Is Love.”) At CinemaCon, Phillips mentioned that categorization isn’t solely correct though the film will function loads of music and dance numbers. “I wish to say it’s a film the place music is a necessary factor,” the director mentioned. “It doesn’t veer too removed from the primary movie. Arthur has music in him. He has a grace to him.”
In the event you or anybody you understand is having ideas of suicide, please name the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/sources.
